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This tiny sachet the size of a sugar packet can be placed in a crate of fruit and it makes the produce last roughly three times longer than usual. 在盛水果的箱子里放一小包东西就可以使水果的保质期比平时延长近两倍的时间，而这小一小包东西只有糖包那么大。 The technology, from a startup called Hazel Technologies, was created as a simple way to tackle one piece of the world’s problem with food waste. 一家名为Hazel Technologies的初创公司开发了这项技术，它是解决全球食物浪费问题的一种简单方法。 In the U.S. alone, each year, $218 billion is spent growing, processing, delivering, and throwing out 52 million tons of uneaten food, often because it goes bad before someone can eat it. Another 10 million tons of food never makes it off farms. 仅仅在美国，每年就有5200万吨未被食用的食物被扔掉，这往往是因为这些食物在人们食用之前就已经变质了，而种植、加工、运输以及扔掉这5200万吨食物要耗费2180亿美元。此外，还有1000万吨食物没出农场就变质了。 “Agriculture is central to human existence, but despite that, we haven’t had nearly the same level of technological revolutions that we have in other world systems like energy or transportation or medicine,” says Aidan Mouat, the CEO of Hazel Technologies. “So I saw a real opportunity there.” | 
